Slides for Day 10 in EWRT 2

1. EWRT 2
Day 10
SCHOLARLY JOURNALS: HOW TO READ THEM AND WHY.

2. Business/Participation
Postpone NYT Evening Briefing quiz until the
second half.
What does participation look like today?
◦ Four possible points!
◦ Up to two points for talking twice in our full
discussion (even if you are reporting back from
your group).
◦ Two total points for group participation:
◦ One point for the first journal activity.
◦ One point for the group discussion of Journal 3.

3. How do college professors (esp. scientists)
communicate their ideas and research findings
with each other?
AND HOW CAN WE PARTICIPATE?

4. What are scholarly journals like?
In your Research Teams.
Two scholarly journal issues.
Compare the journals, discuss, and complete the
worksheet.
Come up with specific pages that you can show the
class to support your points.
Be prepared to share with the class in 10 min.
(Remember: 1 discussion point for talking in your
group.)
Questions from the worksheet:
1. What do you notice about this journal physically?
How would you describe it?
2. How does it compare to a magazine?
3. Who is responsible for the content of this journal?
Who decides what goes in it? How can you tell?
4. How do the articles in this journal differ from articles
in magazines?
5. Who is the intended audience for this journal? Be as
specific as possible.
6. How do you think the intended audience gets access
to this journal? Where can you buy it?
7. Is there advertising in it? If not, how do you think
this journal gets enough money to publish?
8. Who gets paid for their work on this journal? Are the
authors of the individual articles paid? Why do you
think this?
9. What seems to be the most interesting article in this
journal (to you)? (You can judge it based on the title or
on the pictures/graphs/whatever.)

5. What was your experience
reading a scholarly
journal article?

6. Genre and Strategies
In your Research Team.
15 minutes.
Be prepared to share your results with the
class.
(Remember: 1 discussion point for talking in
your group.)
1. Identify key characteristics of this genre:
What are some things that you should
probably expect to see in most journal
articles?
◦ Can be format or content.
2. Tell us some strategies that you used in
order to figure out the main points or ideas in
this article.
3. Come up with what your group thinks is the
main idea(s) of this article. How/where did you
find those main points?

7. Strategy!

8. NYT Evening Briefing Quiz
1. Yesterday, President Trump fired James Comey, who was the director of which government
agency? Why did Trump fire him?
2. Which two countries elected new presidents over the past three days? Did the political Right
win in either election?
3. What major law did Republicans in the House of Representatives repeal last week? What is
the next step in the repeal process?
4. Who is Jordan Edwards and who killed him (don’t need the killer’s name)?
5. 245 migrants died in shipwrecks over the weekend. Where (what continent) were they trying
to reach?

9. Induction/Deduction Revisited
Wording matters, especially in terms of the
question you ask.
Two ways of rewording Question #1
The Giants lost the last few games that I
watched. They aren’t going to win another
game this season.
The Giants have lost twice as many games this
season as they have won. During a given
season, past performance is reliably correlated
to future performance. Therefore, they are
more likely to lose than to win tonight.
Two ways of rewording Question #4
I beat Jasmine at pool more often than I do
not. Winning at pool is not random. So I am
more likely to beat Jasmine at pool tonight
than to lose.
I beat Jasmine at pool several times this
weekend. She can’t beat anyone!